Shmuel, all, I know I'm preaching to the choir ....
You can define COPY members with definitions for macros with long names. And you COPY macro definitions and then OPSYN them to long names. Locally scoped names - yes, I think that would be really useful. At least we can put range restrictions on USING. Not quite the same, I know. But it does help to avoid using a label in a place where it is not supposed to be valid. Kind regards & happy programming! Abe === On 24/10/2025 00:00, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I like the longer names and opcodes; It's to bad that there isn't support for > long names in SYSLIB. > > What I do miss from the old days is a pseudoop called QUAL in IBMAP, which > defined a scope for local names. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on > behalf of Farley, Peter <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:56 PM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: LOAD ON CONDITION > > > External Message: Use Caution > > > Yeah, the days of the 5-character-maximum-length for an instruction name are > gone, and have been for a few hardware generations now. They don't all fit > between those nice paper coding pad column markers at 10 and 16 any more . . > . 😊 > > <*Sigh*> Oh, for the simpler days of our programming lives of less than 1000 > instructions to learn! > > Peter > > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: LOAD ON CONDITION > > Jeebus. Assembler instructions should be able to fit on a licens plate!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 4:28 PM > To: mailto:[email protected] > Subject: LOAD ON CONDITION > > I just coded this and it was kinda fun: > > LOCGHINP R6,1 Set to 1 if not positive > > -- > > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > >
